Anthropic launches Claude Code Beta for Slack, transforming the AI assistant into an autonomous coding partner that maintains codebase awareness, creates files, refactors code, runs tests, and provides progress updates directly within workplace messaging channels like a junior engineer.
IBM acquires data infrastructure giant Confluent for $11 billion in cash, paying a 50% premium to strengthen its position in the AI boom as companies demand massive real-time data processing capabilities for artificial intelligence applications.
Poetiq's AI reasoning system shatters records on prestigious AGI benchmarks while slashing operational costs by 50%, as the company releases open-source code enabling researchers worldwide to replicate their breakthrough results using existing models like Gemini and OpenAI.
AI startup Aaru raises Series A funding at a complex $1 billion valuation structure, using AI agents to simulate human behavior and replace traditional market research methods for major clients like Accenture and EY.
Johns Hopkins researchers discover that biologically inspired AI systems can mimic human brain activity patterns without any training data, challenging the industry's reliance on massive datasets and suggesting neural architecture design may be more important than extensive learning processes.
AI researcher Kevin Zhu claims authorship of 113 papers in one year as major conferences see submissions double to over 21,000, creating a quality crisis where experts struggle to distinguish meaningful scientific contributions from AI-generated low-quality work flooding the academic system.
Five new AI coding models ranging from 15B to 36B parameters now enable developers to run private, local code generation without cloud dependencies, offering fast reasoning, visual code understanding, and transparent workflows through tools like Ollama and LM Studio.
Europe prepares major AI deregulation package for 2026 to catch up with US and China dominance, as the continent struggles with low business adoption rates and hosts only a handful of AI models, while investor enthusiasm for AI technology may simultaneously peak and decline due to unmet promises and major …
AWS launches Kiro powers, a revolutionary system that slashes AI coding assistant token costs by over 50,000 tokens by dynamically loading specialized tool expertise on-demand instead of preloading all capabilities, partnering with major companies like Stripe and Figma to eliminate costly 'context rot.'
Excelsior Sciences secures $95 million to revolutionize drug discovery by replacing human chemists with AI-powered robots that break down FDA-approved molecules into 'smart bloccs' and reassemble them into new pharmaceutical compounds, promising faster and cheaper development while reshoring manufacturing to the US.